Zen-Kei Blasts Off
Zen-Kei is the name of Ramon Zenker and Tom Keil's new project. Witness how they subtly arranged the first three letter of Zenker's name (Z E N, in case you needed help) and Keil's name (K E I, lest any retards kept on reading) to forge the project's title.
The pair just released their first 12" on Great Stuff Recordings. It's entitled "The Blast", and for some reason it has a mean-looking, elaborately dressed dude on its cover. Intrigued? Read on...
The pair just released their first 12" on Great Stuff Recordings. It's entitled "The Blast", and for some reason it has a mean-looking, elaborately dressed dude on its cover. Intrigued? Read on...
Zenker along with his buddy Oliver Bondzio are better known as Hardfloor, pioneering electronic act from the 90s, acknowledged amongst other things for the grand early trance (acid, really) track "Hardfloor Acpierience". Ramon has created music under too many names to list here and I couldn't even tell you which of his projects are still active, especially since I can't make any sense out of Hardfloor's website.
As for Keil, he's the man behind Holon Records and sub-label Room Recordings… Yeah, me neither.
So why should you care? Because "The Blast" it, by all means, a pretty good single. Granted - it may not be groundbreaking, but it's nevertheless worthy of attention. If you want a mental, err, soundscape, think Huntemann & Winter's "In Your Car" crashing head first into a John Dahlbäck song (pick one, but "Dance" from John's Huggotron project fits the bill well).
The original version of "The Blast" gets rollin' with some catchy bongo beats and eventually kicks it into overdrive with a high pitched whine that will just terrorize the boogie out of any bystander and force them to shake it on the dance floor. The 12" also holds remixes by GSR label-mates Trick & Kubic who strip the song down to its electro essentials to great effect. On the flip side, Gregor Tresher brings in a phat bassline to subdue the aforementioned high pitched whine, and newcomer Audiolic from Munich tames the song with a rockier structure. As far as I'm concerned the original version remains the best.
Definitely watch out for Zen-Kei's "The Blast", along with any future release. I have a feeling we'll hear more attention-grabbing stuff from these two pretty soon.
As for Keil, he's the man behind Holon Records and sub-label Room Recordings… Yeah, me neither.
So why should you care? Because "The Blast" it, by all means, a pretty good single. Granted - it may not be groundbreaking, but it's nevertheless worthy of attention. If you want a mental, err, soundscape, think Huntemann & Winter's "In Your Car" crashing head first into a John Dahlbäck song (pick one, but "Dance" from John's Huggotron project fits the bill well).
The original version of "The Blast" gets rollin' with some catchy bongo beats and eventually kicks it into overdrive with a high pitched whine that will just terrorize the boogie out of any bystander and force them to shake it on the dance floor. The 12" also holds remixes by GSR label-mates Trick & Kubic who strip the song down to its electro essentials to great effect. On the flip side, Gregor Tresher brings in a phat bassline to subdue the aforementioned high pitched whine, and newcomer Audiolic from Munich tames the song with a rockier structure. As far as I'm concerned the original version remains the best.
Definitely watch out for Zen-Kei's "The Blast", along with any future release. I have a feeling we'll hear more attention-grabbing stuff from these two pretty soon.
You can listen to "The Blast" on Great Stuff Recordings' web site.
posted by Bruce Benson at
Thursday, February 23, 2006
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